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NAACP on Bombing Attempts against Media, African American Leaders and Progressives

BALTIMORE (October 25, 2018)—With less than two weeks before the critical midterm elections, the discovery of pipe bombs across the country sent to those who have been critical of the current president shows, yet again, how fractured we are as a society. Contrary to what the Trump Administration has been stating in the aftermath of these discoveries, their rhetoric prior to this has been quite the opposite. Although Trump didn’t create the racism and the domestic white nationalism and terrorism that continue to cloud this country, he has on countless occasions incited and empowered people to act out in a way that is truly disturbing and threatens our democracy.

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"We must DISSENT from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away...We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership."
~ Thurgood Marshall #QOTD